Who’s Done It?
Join over 540 Cal entrepreneurs and faculty who have made the Pledge.
Vigyan Singhal
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’96
Founder, Oski Technology (acquired by NVIDIA)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Zubin Nagarvala
’02
Founder, Upward.net (acquired by Jobcase)
Pledge fulfilled in 2023
Lisa Guerra
PhD ’96
Partner, SV2; Co-Founder, Victrio (acquired by Verint)
Pledge fulfilled in 2022
Avi Gupta
M.S. ‘91
President & CEO, SmartZip Analytics (acquired); Founder and CEO, Bubble
David Jaramillo
Ph.D. ’21
Co-founder & CTO, Verne Inc.
Jarrett Wright
’18, M.B.A.’22
Founder & CEO, Higher Rewards
Pravir Singh
’00
Founder & Managing Partner, Montecito Equity Partners
Thomson Nguyen
’07
Co-Founder, Framed Data (acquired by Square); Founder & CEO, Nearside
Rachel Wolan
M.B.A. ’09
VP & GM, Dropbox; former Founder, YadaZing
Jonathon Mahoney
’17
Co-founder, Eachday
Alex Luce
Ph.D. ’15
General Partner, Creative Ventures
Pranava Adduri
’12, M.S. ’13
Co-founder, Bedrock Labs
Edward Shenderovich
’97
Founder and CEO, Synonym Biotechnologies
Kelly Cure
M.B.A. ’21
Co-founder and Head of Growth, Skillful.ly
Jamie Robertson
M.B.A. ’17
Co-founder, Cragmont Partners LLC
Dan Kanivas
M.B.A. ’12
Founder, Triple Summit Advisors
Yuguang (Brian) Yuan
Founder, Mega Gear Robotics
Jeffrey Zavattero
’88
CEO, Goodfill LLC
Cassi Janakos
’11
Co-founder and COO, Healthy Horizons
Ted Tabacco
M.B.A. ’21
Co-Founder & CEO, SpacePlace
Olaseni Bello
M.B.A.’21
Co-founder, CarpeMed
Yannell Selman
M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, Cultiveit
Asif Mohammad
M.Eng. ’21, M.B.A. ’21
Founder & CEO, SocratiQ
Jay (Zijie) Zhao
’21
Co-founder, College Leap
Justin Duan
’21
VoiceOps
Kevin Hartman
M.I.D.S. ’20
Founder, CarbyAI
Stephen Etter
’83, M.B.A. ’89
Lecturer, Haas School of Business; Founder, Greyrock Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
James Hong
’95, M.B.A. ’99
Co-Founder, HOTorNOT; Angel Investor/Advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2014
Lawrence Johnson
’72
CEO, InvestorLogic LLC
Pledge fulfilled in 2019
Mitsuru Igarashi
’89
Founder, Simplex, Inc.
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Marc Bensadoun
Ph.D. ’91
Seed-stage investor and advisor
Pledge fulfilled in 2018
David Hanzel
’78, Ph.D. ’89
Chief Science Officer, Naked Biome (acquired by Symbiome)
Brian Liou
’13
Co-Founder, Ralph Inc.
Augie Rakow
’95
Palo Alto Legal Support
Satish Polisetti
M.I.M.S. ’11
Co-Founder & CEO, Polymorph (acquired by Walmart)
Nicholas Rudder
Founder, ScholarSite
David Kirn
’85
Co-Founder and CEO, 4D Molecular Therapeutics; Co-Founder, IGNITE Immunotherapy
Pledge fulfilled in 2021
Bobby Yazdani
’87
Founder and Managing Partner, Signatures Capital and Cota Capital
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Zach Merritt
M.I.D.S. ’19
Founder, Kindu
Kal Deutsch
M.B.A. ’93
Co-founder & CEO, DealEngine
Fahed Al Essa
M.B.A.’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-founder & CEO, Mayv
Vikram Chandra
Co-founder & CEO, Granthika Co.
Yaw Ofosu Ansong, Jr.
Co-founder & CEO, KovaDx
Emon Motamedi
B.S. ’14, B.A. ’14
Founder, Florian
Lauri Kibby
M.B.A. ’86
Co-Founder and CFO, Kings Garden; Co-Founder and Chairwoman, Endourage
Vikram Sreekanti
’15, Ph.D. ’20
Founder & CEO, Spiral Labs
James Tong
’09
Co-Founder, Nomi
Lizi Feng
’13
Co-Founder, DrVigo and Uni Precision, Inc.
Giles Templeman
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Shihui Mao
M.B.A. ’20
Co-Founder, Callisto
Santiago Freyria
M.B.A. ’20
Founder, ExVivoGen
Linda Chow
M.B.A.’19
Co-Founder and CEO, CaringDr
Lindsey Hoell
Co-founder and CEO, Dispatch Goods
Yao-Chieh “Jeff” Hu
M.Eng ’20
Co-Founder and CEO, Turing Chain
Sol Eun
M.Eng ’20
Founder and CEO, UI Flow
Matthew Cooper
M.B.A. ’10
Founder and CEO, Carmenta Bioscience (acquired by Progenity)
Ryan Chan
’13
Founder and CEO, UpKeep
Farshad Ghaffari
’99
Co-Founder, Entreda (acquired by Smarsh)
Zahid Hussain
Division Deputy, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Erin Mastopietro
’10
Co-Founder, Dope Dog
Michael Olson
’91, M.S. ’92
Co-Founder and CSO, Cloudera
Pledge fulfilled in 2020
Angela Lau
M.B.A. ’16
Co-Founder, Seventh AI
Ludwig Schoenack
M.B.A. ’19
Co-Founder, Drivekyte
Wesley Jackson
’00, M.S. ’05, Ph.D. ’06
Founder and CEO, Valitor Inc
Atanas Bakalov
M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, Knowdeon
Rahul Deedwania
’10
Co-Founder, BreakoutIQ
Amy Fan
M.B.A. ’19, M.P.H. ’19
Co-Founder, Twentyeight Health
Jessica Green
M.S. ’94, Ph.D. ’01
Co-Founder and CEO of Phylagen Inc
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
M.B.A. ’16
Founder, SwiftMotion
Will Huang
’17, M.Eng. ’18
Co-Founder and CEO, Pengram
Andy Yang
’00
CEO, Indiegogo
Art Amador
M.B.A. ’16
Founder and COO, EquBot
Jeremy Hammer
’19
Founder, CatalistX
Emily Walling
M.B.A. ’08
Head of Marketing, Portfolia
Saswat Mishra
E.M.B.A. ’19
Founder and CEO, California Memory Technologies Inc
David Pastewka
’12
CEO, Drapr; Co-Founder, Twindom
John McMahon
M.S. ’72, M.B.A. ’73
Chief Marketing Officer, Allium Vitalis
Benjamin Chang
’88
Glint, Head of Information Security & Compliance